Business Process Transformation Activities

OEMM’s business processes were grouped by similarity of function and data interdependencies into business process clusters for reengineering; there are eight clusters in the project timeline identified to be reengineered.  The eight clusters are: 

1. Manage & Administer Leasing Program

2. Protect Environmental Resources

3. Analyze & Coordinate G&G Reviews

4. Manage Plan Submittals

5. Manage Permit Requests

6. Inspect Operations & Enforce Regulations

7. Monitor Lessee & Operator Activity

8. Manage Reserves Inventory Program, Perform Resource Assessment.  

Within each cluster, there are several phases of work activities involved in transforming the business processes; these include business process reengineering (BPR), systems integration (SI), data management.  These work phases are identical for each of the eight clusters, although the duration and overlap of the phases will vary on a cluster-by-cluster basis.

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR)

Business Process Re-engineering (BPR) is a methodology used to generate organizational efficiency and effectiveness by evaluating what gets done, how and why it gets done.  BPR includes five phases: Strategy Development and Pre-Work, Kick-Off, Baselining, Benchmarking, and Blueprinting. During the Baseline phase, the current (“As-Is”) business processes are captured and a detailed profile is developed, including process maps, workload drivers, root causes for shortfalls, and dependencies, etc.  Benchmarking compares commercial and government best practices to the current and examines potential COTS, tools, or solutions in order to set targets for improving the process cluster.  At the conclusion of BPR, the blueprints that are produced will feed directly into the technology design and implementation of the Systems Integration phase.

Systems Integration (SI)

Systems Integration includes four phases.  System Requirements Specifications (SRS) is the process of capturing system requirements to support the business functions resulting from the BPR. System Design Specifications (SDS) is the process of designing cluster‑specific user-interface and underlying system components required to develop, build and integrate the system.  Integration and Testing refers to the building and testing of the system including: development, integrating, customization, and integrated testing of cluster components.  Deployment and Acceptance refers to the deployment of the cluster system components to a staging environment for user testing and acceptance and, additionally, the Security Certification and Acceptance of the system components deployed in the production environment.

Data Management

There are data management activities that support the OCS Connect project and run concurrent with other activities, such as BPR and SI.  They are considered to be horizontal -- the breadth of the project.  Some of the horizontal activities include establishing data governance, developing a data management plan, identifying and incorporating best practices and standards, taxonomy establishment, establishment of an Electronic Document Management System (EDMS), etc. 

There are data management activities that are considered to be vertical -- Cluster-specific. Some of the vertical activities are data cleanup, data migration and synchronization, and development of a logical data model in which the Seabed data model, obtained from Schlumberger Information Solutions, will be used as the foundation.  

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